Platzer, Elisebha Fabienne

Platzer, Elisebha Fabienne, currently a Ph.D. candidate in Communication Sciences, University of Turin (Italy), in cooperation with the international Ph.D. Program of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Austria). Her PhD thesis is titled Italo Calvino e Le citta`invisibili. Visioni e percorsi artistici and focuses on the semiotic literary structures in Calvino’s novel and their intersemiotic translation into arts and architecture. In 2006 she was a Research Fellow at Brown University, Providence. She conducted research in different archives and libraries: Harvard Widener Library, Archivio di Stato (Turin), Archivio Einaudi (Turin), Sorbonne Nouvelle III (Paris), Universita`degli Studi di Venezia Ca’ Foscari (Venice).